We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Like the latter stars, Adam Brody has demonstrated that he is no one-trick pony.

“I played the paper boy and went to 80 rehearsals and had two lines.

Adam Brody 2003

I was like, ‘Well, screw that!'”

Brody recalled during an interview withElle Girl.

“It was with a bunch of crabby people, and I thought I’d never do this again.

Adam Brody as a young actor

Until I was 18.”

“I was pretty much all about surfing,” he said.

“I worked at a surf shop, I surfed every day, I had independent surf P.E.

Early 2000s Adam Brody

He would not, however, stay there for long.

Yet that’s clearly not what happened.

“It felt life-changing,” he added.

Adam Brody as David Rygalski in Gilmore Girls

“It was phenomenally well written.”

“I remember at the time chafing a little at how exacting they were with the dialogue …

I didn’t love it,” he added.

Stars of the OC in 2003: Rachel Bilson, Adam Brody, Mischa Barton, and Ben McKenzie

Adam Brody hit it big in Fox teen drama The O.C.

“Quite honestly, playing high school …

I was always in my 20s,” he mused toE!

Adam Brody playing drums with Big Japan

He grew as a human being, and the part didn’t grow.

And I think that became tremendously frustrating for him.”

When “The O.C.”

Adam Brody attending Nintendo event in 2006

was canceled in 2007, Brody was eager to embrace challenging new acting opportunities.

“Danny brought it up, so I thought it would be fun, and it has been.

I’ve had a blast.”

Adam Brody posing with fans during the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

The story is set in Los Angeles during the 1950s, during the dark days of McCarthyism.

The focus is on a superhero The Eagle who’s become a victim of the notorious Hollywood blacklist.

“I said, ‘Why don’t we just do that, but as a comic?'”

Adam Brody and Leighton Meester at premiere of The Oranges

The O.C.

is the biggest part of that, and I’m thankful for it," he said.

In fact, his “O.C.”

Adam Brody portraying adult star Harry Reems in Lovelace

The secrecy that characterized their relationship was in place when the two finally tied the knot.

alum Rachel Bilson, his co-star on “The O.C.”

and playing an utter cad in “Some Girl(S).”

Adam Brody and Leighton Meester posing on the red carpet

They became parents in 2015, with the arrival of their first child, daughter Arlo Day.

“Most people I know are starting to get married,” she said.

“It’ll be kids next.

Adam Brody posing with co-star Jesse Eisenman in Fleishman is in Trouble

I like the grown-up stuff.

I like having a house.

I’ve got dogs.”

Adam Brody Nobody Wants This event

In April 2020,Peoplereported that Brody and Meester were expecting a second child.

The following September,Peoplereported that they’d welcomed a boy.

“I have a new kid,” Brody said.

“I have a boy, and he’s a dream.

He’s a dream boy.”

He returned to TV in roles that broke the mold of his O.C.

The show became a Netflix hit and a pop culture sensation.

“It was very interesting, and I’m a lot wiser for it,” he said.

It was all very illuminating."

“I think it will always be Seth Cohen, if I’m being honest,” he said.